英语美文朗读 第538期 Take action and follow your dream

It's hard dealing with the pressure during exams. It's hard taking the heat with deadlines looming. Most people can't do it. They quit chasing their dreams, because it's too hard. That kind of courage and fearlessness, it's hard.

 

考试之际，要应对巨大的压力，这是很困难的事。截止日期近在眼前，要承受巨大的压力，这是很困难的事。大多数人做不到，他们停止追寻梦想，因为这太难了。要想拥有勇气，拥有无畏的心，很难。

 

Breaking bad habits, making new habit starting all over again, that's hard. Most students won't do that. Most people don't have the determination and hunger about them. That kind of courage and fearlessness, only comes with years and years of pushing yourself, stepping outside of your comfort zone, aiming for targets you're not even sure are possible.

改掉坏习惯，养成全新的习惯，一切从头再来，这很困难，大多数学生不会这样做。大多数人没有实现梦想的决心和野心。不断自我鞭策，勇敢地走出舒适区，努力实现那些你也不知道是否能实现的目标，坚持这样做很多年，才能拥有那样的勇气，那样的无畏。

 

But when you finally decide to take control of your own life, and decide that despite the inevitable obstacles, despite the difficulties you're going to face, despite the years of dedication it's going to take, you make a decision that you're not going to let anything or anyone get in your way.

但是，一旦你认定了，你要掌握自己的人生，无论有多少难免的阻碍，无论有多少困难要面对，无论要付出多少年的努力，你都不会让任何事、任何人阻挡你。

 

So, what if it's hard? It's going to be worth it. It's worth it to show the world I'm not just average like most people. It's worth it to show my friends, family, and teachers that I can become something, that I am capable of achieving great things. I can achieve whatever I want. It's worth it to me to pay this kind of price.

所以，要是这一切很困难怎么办？没事，一切都是值得的。让世界知道，我与众不同，这是值得的。让我的朋友、家人、老师知道，我能变得很厉害，我能做成大事，这是值得的。我能实现任何事。付出这样的代价，是值得的。

 

It really doesn't matter what you're going through. How you deal with it is all that matters. The only way you're going to push past the mountain of obstacles, the late-night studying until 3:00 in the morning, the multiple deadlines that just keep coming and coming, you need to have extraordinary focus, a crystal-clear vision of exactly what it is you're aiming to achieve.

你在经历什么，并不重要，重要的是你如何应对它。要想克服无尽的阻碍，熬过挑灯夜战的时光，应对永无止境的截止日期，唯一的办法，就是你要有异于常人的专注力，你要清楚地知道，自己想要的，到底是什么。

 

Whether it's getting that A grade, or 4.0 GPA, or getting into the most prestigious university in the country, you need to work out exactly how you're going to make it happen. You need to make it the first thing you think about when you wake up. It's only then that you have a chance, because then, when that procrastination starts sliding into your life, you will muster the force to destroy that obstacle.

无论你是想拿到A等成绩，还是拿到4.0的绩点，还是考上你们国家最优秀的大学，你都需要想明白，你怎样才能实现你的目标。你需要把它当作最重要的事，每天一起床就开始为它努力。这样，你才能有机会实现目标，因为，如果你这样做，当你拖延症又犯了的时候，你就会有力量去克服它。

 

Do you think like an A student? Or are you falling back into that C mindset? Your success is completely dependent on how you use the 24 hours in your day. Everyone has the same amount of time. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Will Smith, they all have 24 hours, and you'll see this with the students in your class, the students failing their exams.

你的思维方式，跟拿到A等成绩的学生，一样吗？还是说，你又开始退步了，态度跟那些成绩是C等的学生一样？每个人拥有的时间都是相等的。比尔盖茨，沃伦巴菲特，威尔史密斯，这些人，他们拥有的，都是每天24小时而已，你班上的学生也如此，没错，就是那些考砸了的学生。

 

You'll probably notice the same patterns. They wake up whenever they want to wake up. They might go to class. They might not. It depends if there's something more interesting on Netflix to watch. When their exams are approaching, they don't care. They might start studying the week before, or a few days before, or even just the night before.

也许，你会发现，失败者都是类似的。他们想什么起床，就什么时候起床。他们可能会去上课，可能会逃课。这一切，取决于Netflix上有没有什么东西让他们感兴趣。考试即将到来，他们也不在乎。他们可能提前一周才开始学习，或者提前几天，甚至考试前一晚才开始学习。

 

Don't fall into that mindset. It's not okay. If you want to get A grades, then make it happen. You have to act like you have all the energy in the world. Because it's no good just thinking as though you're going to make a change. It takes action. Everything that you've ever dreamed of, is nothing with action.

你的心态不要跟他们一样，这是有问题的。如果你想得到A等成绩，那么，就请你努力实现这个目标。你要做出行动，好像自己拥有无限的精力一样，因为，想做出改变，空想是没用的，你必须做出行动。你所有的梦想，要是没有行动，就都只是空中楼阁而已。

 

Everywhere you look, take a look around you. You're surrounded by people that have impressive dreams, but they stay as dreams because they didn't take action. Now look around you again. That iPhone sitting on the table that, Samsung TV on the wall, that laptop you're working on, they were all created by people no different to yourself. It's just that they followed their dreams.

看看你的周围吧，你周围的人，他们都拥有很棒的梦想，但是，这些梦想，没能实现，因为他们没有采取行动。再仔细看看你的周围吧，桌子上的那台苹果手机，墙上的三星电视，你正在使用的笔记本电脑，他们的发明者，跟你没什么不同，他们只是一直坚持追寻梦想而已。